This movie is SO GOOD, I really recommend it.
Paul Kaye plays a British club DJ (based on a true story?) who is at the peak of a ridiculous career when he goes deaf fairly suddenly. I cannot explain how good it is without ruining it for you, but please believe me, it's REALLY GOOD.
*Spoiler Alert past this point*
Frankie Wilde is a crazy, drug-fueled, wildly popular DJ who is sickeningly successful and coke-nosed. His wife (Kate Magowan) is beautiful but whorish. His agent? manager? guy (Mike Wilmot) is loud, "American"-accented (I can't see this guy being a real American though) (I just Googled him, and Wikipedia has him Canadian), and has a bluetooth stuck to his ear, so there's that. The movie largely takes place in Ibiza, Spain, at Wilde's villa. He DJs at clubs, produces albums, and is all-around dependent on music, until he starts rapidly going deaf. He completely loses hearing in the right ear, with 20% hearing in his left ear. That is, until an accident in the studio renders him totally deaf. His whorish wife leaves him, and he holes up at the villa, hiding from the world. Ultimately, he decides to pull it together, kicks the coke, and finds a lip-reading teacher (Beatriz Batarda) who shows him a whole new perspective on life...and then he figures out how to appreciate music as a deaf person, makes a kind of shocking comeback, realizes his life was all bullshit when he was famous, and then disappears to start a new family with Penelope.
I really REALLY liked this movie.
Availbility: DVD only
Released: 2004
Added to my Netflix queue: 12/6/2007
Reason added to my queue: unknown
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